FOR THE FASTEST CHIP ever to grace a gaming PC, the Intel Core i9 14900K is about as boring a CPU refresh as one could be. We’ve seen it all before: the massive core count, the architecture, the 6GHz clock speed. The 14900K might do some things better than the 13th Gen, but it rarely matters. That doesn’t make it any less of an awesome gaming chip—it just doesn’t push the needle forward much.
The 14900K struggles to deliver anything new. It’s marginally faster than its
